Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and
run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.
That means the popular services that allow people to hail privately owned cars via smartphone soon will
operate under state oversight, without local - level restrictions, unless counties decide to ban them.
The Long Island Republican is pretty much apoplectic over the control board's unanimous decision yesterday to put his
county under state oversight, insisting the move was politically motivated and born of the NIFA members» concern that his capable management will soon make them obsolete.
Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into
charters under state oversight.
We also discussed the issue of local governance because most of our schools are
under state oversight.
The city's figure did not include several schools that are
under state oversight but are not part of the Recovery School District.